Draper v. Rodd

The trial judge denied motions to change the answers of the jury to the questions of the special verdict. He concluded that the warrant of the county treasurer was regular upon its face and protected the sheriff in making the levy irrespective of the validity of the pretended tax, but “that the sheriff, by failing to attend on November 30th at the time and place set for sale and then either go on with the sale or proclaim an adjournment, lost his right to sell the property except under readvertisement; and that the sale on December 1st without any readvertisement rendered him a ‘trespasser ab…